Don’t separate your spiritual or mindfulness practice (ethical living, kindness, respect, patience, generosity) from daily life; actively bring its fruits into the world through your actions.
Diligently establish and maintain a meditation practice during periods of ease and calm to build resilience and training that will support you during inevitable crises.
Extend compassion even to those who have done harm, seeking to understand the circumstances of their heart and mind to melt divisions, without endorsing their actions.
Recognize that ‘we belong to each other’ and are responsible for one another, moving away from extreme individualism and practicing generosity by letting go of what you have in excess.
Speak truth directly and ask difficult questions with interest, care, and respect, aiming to help others understand the impact of their actions rather than just pointing out wrong.
Cultivate courage by actively turning toward difficulty and chaos, recognizing that fear is often a conditioned response to past experiences, and discerning when to set it aside.
Use meditation practice as an intensive ’therapy’ to deeply examine your own habit tendencies and conditioning, which enables more skillful outward expression of your practice.
Actively cultivate the ten paramis (generosity, integrity, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve, loving kindness, equanimity) in daily life to foster awakening and ethical engagement.
Lean into your unique station in life to take action, starting with difficult conversations with close friends and family, engaging with genuine interest to understand their perspectives without trying to convince them.
Take action with good intentions, accepting that you will make missteps; view ‘sticking your foot in your mouth’ as a sign of engagement, and meet any fallout with kindness, patience, and curiosity.
Guard against self-righteousness by asking how judging others serves your intention, and focus on genuine commitment to helping and closing gaps where ‘othering’ lives.
Work for long-term social transformation with sustained diligence, understanding that full resolution may not occur in your lifetime, and act out of kindness, compassion, and joy, not for a specific outcome.
Be in tune with your heart and actions, choosing those that feel light, free, and happy, and avoid those driven by greed, hatred, or delusion, aiming for a ‘clean residue’ from your choices.
Give yourself grace for initial ’lizard brain’ reactions, and cultivate trust in your second, more evolved instincts to guide your responses.
Participate in ongoing online ‘Truth and Justice Vigils’ (open to all) to find support, engage in dialogue, explore collective intentions, and work on unraveling conditioning that prevents compassionate action.
Consider using a meditation app (like 10% Happier) for guided meditations, courses, and coaching to maintain a consistent, high-quality practice.